Saskatoon StarPhoenix

COMPLIMENT­ARY

- BY SAM EZERSKY AND BYRON WALDEN / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Iams competitor 5 Pretend

12 Song sung by Garth Brooks on Jay Leno’s last “Tonight Show” 20 Podcast host Maron 21 Fred Flintstone’s boss 22 Weathers, as a

hurricane 23 “That’s me you’re

looking for” 24 Compliment to a lawmaker? 26 Lesley who played Mrs. Patmore on “Downton Abbey” 28 ____ the sly (be

secretive about)

29 Drug used to combat

A.D.H.D.

30 Short writing assignment, informally 32 Really like 35 Really like 36 Compliment to a composer?

39 ____ voce

43 Deep, deep hole 44 Crème de ____ 46 Lucky strike? 47 Toe, to a tot 50 John, Paul or George, but not Ringo 52 Alternativ­e to

first class 55 Lake vessel 56 Water cooler? 58 Cornbread variety named for where it’s baked

59 Film role for the dog Skippy 60 Meditative discipline 62 Compliment to a

lecturer?

64 Compliment to a

taxonomist? 67 Compliment to a champion speller? 68 Smallville

69 2002 Literature

Nobelist Kertész

70 Snack with a rock climber on its wrapper

71 Head of

communicat­ions? 72 Gettysburg general 73 Like many holiday

candles

74 Gal of “Wonder

Woman”

77 Banned game

projectile­s

78 [not my mistake] 79 “Why, you little …” 81 Word with prayer or

paddle

84 Claim in e-cigarette ads 87 Compliment to a

charity organizer? 93 Dorm V.I.P.s 95 Major exporter of uranium

96 Hand-to-hand combat weapon

97 Long lines?

100 Athlete honored on Richmond’s Monument Avenue 102 Drained of color 103 Compliment to a vegetable gardener? 107 What the “s” stands for in “scuba”

108 Enhanced medium for talk radio 109 Draw upon 110 “____ Enchanted” (2004 film) 111 Result of a computer crash

112 Got back at 113 Difficult situation DOWN

1 Key of Mozart’s “Odense” Symphony 2 Thin layer

3 ____ to sell 4 Color-changing creatures

5 “Yo te ____” (Spanish 101 phrase)

6 How boors behave 7 Some inclement weather, in broadcast shorthand 8 “Oh, by the way …” 9 GPS system, e.g. 10 Suffix with señor 11 Bog

12 Weapon resembling the letter psi 13 Posterior

14 Beat after a buzzer beater 15 Rubbish 16 Alternativ­e to Parmesan 17 Chuck ____, four-time Super Bowl-winning coach

18 Pick out 19 Uranians and

Neptunians 25 Lack the courage to,

for short 27 Musical set in St.Tropez, familiarly 31 Actress Hoffmann of

“Transparen­t” 33 Half: Prefix 34 What dark clouds

might represent 37 Small bone, as in the

ear

38 Quai D’Orsay setting 40 Prepared to shoot 41 Beings on TV’s

“Doctor Who” 42 West Coast beer

brand, informally

45 Modern payment

option 47 Musical medley 48 Wits

49 Not hold back, to a

poker player 51 Ottoman title 53 Twice tetra54 More sharply dressed 55 Container for

amontillad­o

56 Easternmos­t of the

Lesser Antilles 57 Kitchen device 58 Meriting only half a

star, say

60 French city where D’Artagnan lived in “The Three Musketeers” 61 MSN, for one 62 BonanLP

63 Site for an A.C.L. tear 65 Took off

66 Words said before bed?

72 Peace Nobelist Yousafzai

73 ID card fig.

74 Lose rigidity

75 Not worth ____ 76 Florida’s Miami-____ County 77 Lightsaber wielder 80 Worlds external to the mind 82 Activity in libraries and movie theaters 83 Diplomatic agreement 85 Record label for Whitney Houston 86 One of the friends on

“Friends”

88 Milkshake, in New

England

89 Author Gerritsen and

actress Harper

90 What one might seek after a computer crash, informally 91 Opera with the aria

“Ave Maria”

92 Skim 94 Vice President Agnew 97 Stone that’s a star 98 It may be checkered 99 Till section 101 Scrape 103 Crestfalle­n

104 Tony winner Hagen 105 Dallas hoopster, briefly

106 Roll on a golf course

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